Watch: Amon-Ra St. Brown wins best catch at Pro Bowl, flaunts Pete Davidson tattoo
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Amon-Ra St. Brown has won the NFL’s inaugural “best catch” competition.
Billed as the league’s answer to the dunk contest, the competition pitted St. Brown, Justin Jefferson, Stefon Diggs and Pat Surtain against each other in a two-day event. St. Brown advanced to the finals after flipping into a Las Vegas pool for a catch on Thursday night, then had a few more tricks up his sleeve in his showdown against Diggs for the title.
St. Brown caught his first pass while vaulting through the air off a trampoline, which drew a score of 85.0 from judges Snoop Doggs, Pete Davidson and LaDainian Tomlinson. Diggs failed on all three attempts to catch his first pass, giving ARSB a huge lead.
St. Brown recruited his brother, Bears wideout Equanimeous St. Brown, to help him with his second catch. Both brothers vaulted off trampolines, with Equanimeous catching the ball from Mike Vick first, then shoveling it along to Amon-Ra after the Lions wideout vaulted over Roary, the team’s mascot. That drew a score of 92.0, for a total of 177.0 that blew away Diggs for the title.
Then St. Brown flexed his right arm for the ESPN cameras, showing off a Pete Davidson No. 1 fan tattoo.
“Oh dude, that’s so dope,” Davidson said. “Thank you man. That’s amazing. I hope it comes off.”
St. Brown also caught three passes during a series of three flag football games — one of which scored a touchdown — to help lead the NFC to a 35-33 win against the AFC in the revamped Pro Bowl. Players pocketed $42,000 for their winning efforts, including all four members of the Lions contingent. Quarterback Jared Goff, center Frank Ragnow and right tackle Penei Sewell also participated, a club high since 1971.
Goff operated the NFC offense during the second flag football matchup, although wasn’t nearly as sharp as he was during the precision drills on Thursday night. Goff completed just 6 of 14 passes for one touchdown and one interception in an 18-13 loss to the AFC. He also fumbled.
After opening with a Christian McCaffrey drop and then a false start, Goff got going with a short completion to St. Brown, then finally got his first touchdown in the second half on a short pass to Vikings running back Dalvin Cook.
Goff fired his best pass of the day on the subsequent conversion, fitting a pass to former teammate T.J. Hockenson through, well, it can’t even be called a window. More like a keyhole. Even Minkah Fitzpatrick and C.J. Mosley seemed dumbfounded they didn’t get a hand on the football.
But the NFC remained down 18-13 when they got the ball back with 1:32 left, then Goff nearly threw another pick on back-to-back passes. After a short completion to Cook, Goff threw short of the sticks on fourth-and-12, although got another look at the play due to offsetting penalties. Goff couldn’t connect with Lamb down the field, and the game was over.
Hey, look on the bright side: At least Goff didn’t dislocate his toe.
Ragnow earned the start for the NFC in the flag football games, although didn’t do much given, you know, this was flag football and all. His selfie game was fire though.
As for Sewell, the video says it all of his efforts in the relay race.
“I pity the wall,” Saints defensive end Cam Jordan said during the ESPN telecast. “I pity the wall.”
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